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- Title
Psychoanalytical Study on Preeti Shenoy's The One You Cannot Have.
- Authors
Nandhakumar, K.
- Abstract
This paper aims to analyse the latent content of the novel in the light of Freud's psychoanalytical theory and other psychological concept, i.e., Electra Complex in order to unravel the causes for equivocal behaviours of significant female character, disclose the hidden contents and meanings untold by the author. Preeti Shenoy as India's only bestseller woman novelist of the year 2016, has been gifting many interesting novels to the readers with her real-life themes and her simple vocabulary. In her significant novel, The One You Cannot Have, she deals with many untold psychological issues faced by youngsters, particularly married women, such as trauma, depression, and repression. Therefore, the proposed paper aims to analyse the latent content of the novel in the light of Freud's psychoanalytical theory. In other words, it is an attempt to find out the hidden aspects of the novel, by analysing the strange attitudes of the significant characters.
- Subjects
ELECTRA complex; PSYCHOANALYSIS; FREUD, Sigmund, 1856-1939; WOMEN novelists; ONE You Cannot Have, The (Book); MARRIED women in literature; SUPEREGO; SHENOY, Preeti
- Publication
Language in India, 2018, Vol 18, Issue 11, p170
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article